Strategic Approach
The number of categories in the strategic approach
What is 3?
The number one reason California children are hospitalized
What is mental illness?
In California, people of color make up nearly x percent of the 1.8 million people living within a mile of oil and gas developments, which is a significant environmental factor in health outcomes.
What is nearly 92 percent?
An agreement to limit profits and give back to the community
What is the 2 percent cap?
Building lasting, equitable solutions that make California the healthiest state and end domestic violence
What is the Foundation's mission?
The pillar that includes Employee Giving and Volunteerism
What is Leverage People and Resources?
The age by which half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin
What is 14?
What is the average amount of health life that Californians can expect to lose due to air pollution?
What is six months?
The percentage of employees engaged in giving or volunteerism
What is 72?
A nonprofit whose funding priorities and grantmaking processes are determined independently from the healthcare plan
What is the Foundation?
The pillar that includes BlueSky
What is Take on Hard Challenges?
The year that Blue Shield of California is committing to become carbon negative
What is 2023?
The number of educators who have been trained in Youth Mental Health First Aid
What is more than 2,000?
$11.3 million
What is the amount that Blue Shield gave to support the needs of Californians
Making California the healthiest state, achieving health equity, and improving the health and well-being of all Californians
What is the shared goal of the Foundation and the healthplan?
To create a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable
What is our North Star?
The percentage of adults in California that are affected by domestic violence - either directly or indirectly through a friend or family member
What is nearly two out of three - or 58 percent?
Blue Shield donated this much money to Project Homekey
What is $20M?
A program for enabling employees to give back through a wide variety of volunteer and giving options
What is Shield Cares
The amount that Blue Shield of California has contributed to the Blue Shield of California Foundation over four years
What is $150 million?
As a nonprofit health plan covering all 58 counties in California, Blue Shield is working to improve the health and well-being of all Californians. We go beyond the traditional definition of health care to address the root causes of health inequity and drive meaningful social change. Through our people and resources, Blue Shield is tackling the barriers to well-being and empowering all Californians to reach their full potential with a focus on youth mental health, social justice and sustainability.
What is our elevator pitch?
The resource developed in partnership with DoSomething.org in the wake of the pandemic
What are mental health coping tips for youth by youth?
This a direct impact on your health
What is where you live?
The amount of money that employees donated to California-based nonprofits in in 2020
What is $1.44M
To improve the health and well-being of all Californians
What is the definition of citizenship